Mabel Elizabeth Leavitt Sims

Memorial services will be at a later date. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Happy.

Mabel was born April 18, 1914, in Canyon to James Joseph and Wilhemine Josephine Johnson Leavitt. She grew up west of Happy and attended school in Canyon. Mabel had six brothers, Clarence, Roy, Harold, Wilbur, Pete and Alford, and a sister, Abbie. Mabel married Willie S. “Bill” Sims on Aug. 12, 1931, in Clovis, N.M.

She was a homemaker and enjoyed crocheting and quilting. Bill and Mabel farmed and lived north and west of Happy for many years. She moved to Happy in 1977. They enjoyed fishing at Buffalo Lake and Lake Amisted near Zapata. Mabel was given the RSVP Outstanding Award in 1984 and 1985. Bill and Mabel were the parents of a daughter, Dorthy Mae Sims Morton, and twin sons, Carl Wayne Sims and Carol Edward Sims.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill, in 1976; her mother in 1932; her father in 1965; a daughter, Dorthy, in 1986; a son, Carl, in 1994; a son, Carol, in 1997; a sister, Abbie; and six brothers, Clarence, Roy, Harold, Wilbur, Alford and Pete.

Survivors include two daughters-in-law, Wynnell Sims of Tulia and Patricia Sims of Happy; her grandchildren, Gary Morton and wife Alice of Anchorage, Alaska, Lary Morton and wife Kim of Safford, Ariz., LaRae Sims Scott and husband Pat of Canyon, Jerry Sims and wife Patrice of Happy, Jeff Sims of Happy and Jay Sims and wife Suzanne of Shreveport, La.; her great-grandchildren, Garrison Morton, Dustin and Luke Morton, Clay Scott, Wesley and Wyatt Sims and Braden and Jace Sims; sisters-in-law, Mildred Leavitt of Canyon and Odessa Leavitt of Happy; and many nieces and nephews.